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THE MEDFORD DAILY TR11UJNR MEIVEOKD, OWKOON. TUESDAY. (HTOUKK 1!)).
Medford Daily Tribune
Official Taper of the City of Mod ford.
Published everv evetdim except Sunday.
MED FORD PUBLISHING COMTA'
George Putxam, Editor and Manager.
Admitted as Second-Class Matter in the Postof f i e
Medford, Oregon.
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IS OXE MAX'S JUDGUEXT SUPElilOR TO THAT
OF TWELVE?
Another instance of Jackson county justice.
Monday the "Walsworths, father and son. stood up for
sentence in the circuit court at Jacksonville after being
convicted of manslaughter.
The jury that tried the father signed a written petition
to the trial judge asking the extreme clemency of the court.
The jury that tried the son made a like request. The pen
alty fixed by the law is imprisonment from one to fifteen
years. The defendants had each served eighteen months'
imprisonment in the penitentiary for the same offense,
after which a new trial was granted. The sentence im
posed will make them serve sixteen and one-half years for
a crime the jury found was manslaughter, punishable in
the extreme by imprisonment for fifteen years.
In many states the jury is empowered to fix the pen
alty. In this state they cannot, and in this district it seems
that their recommendation is of about as much force as
a petition from the defendant himself.
The jury, under the law. are exclusive judges of the
facts that prove the guilt or innocence of a defendant, and
while they cannot fix the penalty, their recommendation
should not be spurned with such an evident showing of
contempt.
Is it possible that the man selected by ihc accident of
politics to preside at trials is so superior to the average
jury that the latter 's voice fall .on ears that not only heav
not, but are resentful of recommendations of clemency,
mercy and humanity? Is it possible that in such matte;-?
the judgment of one man is superior to that of twelve ?
"Upon what meat, hath this, our Caesar, fed
That he hath grown so great?"
AX AUTUMX SUXSET.
Nature having produced the perfect day and a fall
day in the Rogue River valley is the perfect day, a verit
able "Bridal of earth and sky"'
crowned her glory by creating a horizon-wide panorama
of flaunting hues and fleeting forms the autumn sunet.
Across the western sky in a riot of everchanging color
flit a world of weird and grotesque ever-shifting shapes
that chase each other in flying chaos ; copper and burn1 shed
gold, the pink of the briar and the blue of the violet, pearly
grey and flashing crimson, mingle in wild confusion.
Painted with a haunting beauty in the sunset sky, we
see now the flaring flames of an aerial forest fire; w
the surging breakers of a sea of blood; now a fairy moun
tain range, whose snowy summits shine with a pink after
glow; now a maiden's face, whose blush of youth turns in
a second to the ash of age, and loses luster as you gazej
now this, now that form is sharply outlined and then fades
into, some other one.
Gradually the gold of the autumn sky melts into the
purple shadows, the seething sea of colors fade 'is the
breezes pass on frosty feet, and one by one the swinging
lanterns of the night twinkle from the arched dome of the
heavens, leaving "the world to darkness and o me."
The myriad fleeting sights and gorgeously colored
visions in the glow of the sinking sun, are limited only by
the imagination of those who have eyes to see the b auty
that nature spills with a lavish hand not only in the sk ies
above, but on the earth beneath over a land "fair f.s the
garden of the Lord "
Of course there are those who cannot srje--tho.se of
whom Joaquin Miller wrote:
The gold that in the sun-light lies
In bursting iieaps at dawn ; '
The silver spilling from the skies
At night to walk upon ; ' ,
The diamonds gleaming in the dew,
. He never raw, he never know,
' Some gold he had, dug from the mud,
Some silver, crushed from stones,
The gold was red with 'dead men's blood.
The silver black with groans,
And when lie died he moaned aloud:
' But God, they've put no pocket in my shroud.
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Grain Rates Reduced.
Reductions in grain rates of about
l'J'2 per cent from the interior to
tidewater will ;. info effect on the
railroads of the Xorthwe-t on Novem
ber 1 and will effect a very lame
saving to the wheat growers of the
Inland Empire. The redaction was
irdered on the O. R. & X. lines by
'he Oregon railroad poinn'i--iou and
on the Washington railroads by the
commission of tli:it state. I n the
nresent year's prop it is believed a
saving of about ..100,000 will be real
ized to growers by the lessened
'"re'':h! rates.
firenf prep:ir,-i lions nr.- being made
for the annual It 1 River apple fair.
October -JS. -J0 and 30. The display
f prize fruit will be l!..g,r nnd bct
'"r than ever ;imi M' a t tcdnnce
on i ' r ' i- in be
xceptioually liirg.. Sat unlay, Octo
ber will be Portland day. The
Portland Commercial club has been
invited and citizens gcncrnllv from
this city will view the Hood Rivet
show in large numbers. Interest in
'he exhibit of fine apples ;it the fuir
is wide.
WOOLEN MILLS
The Pendleton Woolen M ills a re ti I with ll:1 aimotiiirenieitt of lite reor
ganization of the company, the building tup' -i i i m it 'i 1 1 of a new woolen mill
by Clarence M. mid Koy T. Uisbeo. sons of t -Mayor ( '. !'. ' iisliop of Salem.
The trade will soon be able to show I'mse famous Aulo I'olx s. Carriage Uobcs,
Indian liobes and Condi Covers made of that fine eastern Oregon wool, said to
be the finest robes made in the United States, ami they have a national reputation.
TREES
84032 booked to date.
Reliable stock at right prices.
Everything in the nursery line.
Vines, Plants, Flowering Shrubs.
Once a customer, you will come again.
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1201 N. CENTRAL AVE.
P. 0. BOX 823.
PHONE 3221
Do
You
ECZEMA CURABLE? PROVEN
I Contemplate Planting an Orchard ?
If So
Attorney at Moline, III.. Convinced
by Oil of Wintergreen Compound
There isnothing that wil convince a
lawyer except evidence.
Xow here is some rather startling
evidence of a simple home cure for
eczema which convinced one. lawyer,
F. 0. Entrioken, attorney at Moline,
Illinois. lie tells how oil of r.-iuler-green
compound mixed with thymol
and glycerine, as in D. T). 0. Pres
cription cured him in thirty days nf
teer thirty-two years of suffering.
"For thirty-two years," writes At
torney Entriken, "I was troubled
with eczema, scabs all over my face,
body and head. I could run n hair
brush over my body nndthn floor
would be covered with scale-; enough
to fill a basket. I tried everything
salves, internal medicine, X-ray, all
without result."
Just a month ago, I was induced
to fry n. n. n. Prescription. The
ilelt was relieved instantly; so I eon
lintied. Tl is just n month now and
I am completely cured. T have not n
particle of itch and Ihe scales have
dropped off. I pan only say again
cure discovered. I am now starting
all (he eczema suffers on the right
(rack."
Cure after cure has been brought
to our attention and always that in
stant relief from that awful itch.
Medford Pharmacy. 2
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For Chapped Skin.
Chapped skin whether on the hands
of face may be cured in one. night by
applying Chamberlain's Salvo. It is
also nneqtialed for sore nipples,
burns nnd scalds. For side by Leon
P. Nankins' Pharmacy.
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C. F. COOK, Proprietor
MEDFORD, OR.
PHONE 583.
OFFICE .IN
ROGUE RIVER VALLEY DEPOT